Tracking 901 gauges (0 reporting live). No gauge is currently at or above a flood classification. See them on the live map (River gauges layer).
Live water levels from river gauges across every Australian state, joined to the Bureau of Meteorology flood classification for each gauge. One question, one call: which gauges are at or above minor, moderate, or major flood level right now, and where.
Tracking 901 gauges (0 reporting live). No gauge is currently at or above a flood classification. See them on the live map (River gauges layer).
The Bureau of Meteorology publishes minor, moderate, and major flood classification levels for flood-relevant gauges: the water heights at which flooding starts to have defined impacts at that location. We poll each state's own gauge telemetry (WaterNSW, Victorian WMIS, Queensland water monitoring, Water Data SA, Water Data Tasmania, the NT Water Data Portal, and the Bureau's Water Data Online for WA), then derive each gauge's current flood class by comparing its latest reading against those published thresholds.
The result is status reporting against published authority levels: "gauge X is above the BoM major flood level". We do not model, forecast, or predict. Readings are in metres relative to each gauge's local datum. Stale data is flagged and never counted as a current flood signal. See understanding flood classifications.
GET /api/v1/gauges — stations with latest level, flood class, thresholds, and local government area. Filter by state, LGA, bounding box, or floodClass.
GET /api/v1/gauges/summary— counts at or above each class, grouped by state or LGA. One call answers "is anything flooding in my area".
GET /api/v1/gauges/{id} — one gauge with its trailing six hours of readings.
GET /api/v1/gauges/{id}/readings — full reading history with hourly and daily rollups (paid plans; raw readings inside flood events are kept permanently).
All endpoints use your existing API key. Developer guide: river gauges API. Full reference: API docs.
Gauges are one layer of the flood lifecycle EmergencyAPI covers end to end: official warnings and SES incidents as they happen, rising water against published flood levels, and disaster declarations down to suburb level when recovery starts. The same LGA vocabulary joins all of it.
This service reports published gauge observations against the Bureau of Meteorology flood classifications for each gauge. It is status reporting, not flood prediction, and not a substitute for official warnings from your state emergency service. Readings are in metres relative to each gauge’s local datum, not sea level, and gauges can fail or report erroneous values during extreme events.